Following yesterdays Senate vote to confirm Sen. Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General, LGBT and civil rights groups were quick to condemn his confirmation. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said that Donald Trump’s choice of Jeff Sessions to lead the United States Department of Justice places civil rights and equality in jeopardy. “It’s deeply disturbing…
WASHINGTON — Ahead of this week’s confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for United States Attorney General, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), released a report detailing Jeff Sessions’ alarming record on LGBTQ equality. The report was delivered to Members of Congress with an attached letter from Chad Griffin, President of the Human Rights Campaign, calling…
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced today that its new national legal director, David Cole, will testify at Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing for attorney general Jan. 11. The ACLU is nonpartisan, and as a matter of longstanding policy does not support or oppose nominees for federal office. As a result, the…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Jeff Sessions has supplemented his original Dec. 9 Senate Judiciary Questionnaire (SJQ)—admitting that he had initially omitted hundreds of items—but there are still dramatic gaps in his record, according to a new report compiled by the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, People For the American Way, and Alliance for Justice. Fully…
President-elect Donald Trump has offered Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions the position of attorney general, the nation’s top law enforcement officer. Sessions, an early Trump backer, is an immigration hard-liner who has been in the Senate since 1997 and previously served as attorney general for the state of Alabama. In 1986 Sessions was rejected as a…
